How We Got By: 111 People Share Stories of Survival, Resilience, and Hope through Hardship

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When your world is upended, how do you react Who do you become New York Timescolumnists, illustrator Julia Rothman and writer Shaina Feinberg, seek answers to these questions and more in thisgorgeously illustrated collection of sometimes heartbreaking, always illuminating first-person stories.
Based on one of Feinberg and Rothman's columns in the New York Times, How We Got By: New Yorkers Advice for Getting Through a Crisis, How We Got Byis an ambitious journalistic undertaking rendered in an artful, collectible package. Each accompanied by one of Rothmans full-color illustrated portraits, these personal accounts touch on a wide variety of subjects, from money and business to relationships, family, trauma, and death.

A window into the world of how others think, feel, and, ultimately, survive, How We Got By invitesus to remember our shared humanity as well as our truly extraordinary resilience.

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Julia Rothmanis the author and/or illustrator of fourteen books, includingNature Anatomy,Ladies Drawing Night, andHello, New York.In 2017, she cofoundedwith Wendy MacNaughtonWomen Who Draw, an open directory of female-identifying illustrators, artists, and cartoonists.

Shaina Feinbergis a New York City-born-and-raised author and filmmaker whose character-driven films explore themes of gender and sexism with heart and humor. She has written for the New Yorker, the Washington Post, and has a regular column in the New York Times.